The David T.K. Wong Fellowship

The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr. David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998.

The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971.  Among our graduates are:  Tash Aw, Trezza Azzopardi, Martyn Bedford, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Andrew Cowan, Diana Evans, Sue Fletcher, Kathryn Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan and Owen Sheers. 

Previous David T.K. Wong Fellows: Po Wah Lam (1998), José Dalisay (1999), Simone Lazaroo (2000), Liisa Laing (2001), Wendy Law-Yone (2002), Lakambini Sitoy (2003), Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004), Linh Dinh (2005), Mulaika Hijjas (2006), Balli Jaswal (2007), Nam Le (2008) and Hanh Hoang (2009).

• Download 2011 Information, Terms and Conditions

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• Read news from former David T K Wong Fellows

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Official David T.K. Wong website with information about David T.K.Wong and his writing; includes downloadable content from his Hong Kong Stories.

Podcasts

February 2010: David Wong speaks about this collection of short stories and what the David T K Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in the UK is all about. Download the file in MP3 format here.
 

Fellowship Award 2010/11 

Cab Tran is the 2010/11 David T. K. Wong Fellow.  He was born in 1978 in the village of Vam Cong in Vietnam.  As part of the diaspora following the war, he left at eighteen months with his father and pregnant mother (his brother was born en route to the United States). Cab spent his childhood in rural Oregon, where his parents still work in a potato factory.  In 1997 he pursued a secondary education at the University of Montana, but discontinued his studies after six years to focus on other non-academic interests.

Cab has recently been published in Black Warrior Review and 580 Split. He plans to use his time in Norwich, England to finish a collection of short fiction that deals with themes of a transcendental nature: of love, death, and astonishment.